Photos- Stuart McIntosh
A few years back during a friendly game of euchre Dave Henry, a lifetime farmer commented that he hadn’t seen any bobolinks on his place. He thought there’s a lack of hay and pasture fields for them to nest. Although most of our farm is now turned over to the cash crop phenomenon, there will always be a hayfield somewhere here so long as I am on this side of the sod. When I took this photo and listened to this birds song I thought of Dave again.
IN 2016 before I was councillor…… I posted this and brought attention to a local issue.
The Bobolink bird, long a familiar sight in southern Ontario farm fields, is disappearing. Conservationists and others are joining forces to find practical ways to reverse the decline, beginning with an Ontario Recovery Strategy Series in 2013.
Did you know the Bobolink bird nesting areas are in the open grasses of our Carleton Place park by the river? Some bird enthusiasts are concerned and emailed me as to why the town seems to mow the park so early because it interferes with the Bobolink’s nesting period. I was told that the town was asked to delay their mowing until nesting season was over. Apparently, according to some, it seemed to fall on deaf ears. Is there a reason why the grass must be cut by any specific date?
Recovery of species at risk is the process by which the decline of an endangered, threatened, or extirpated species is arrested or reversed, and threats are removed or reduced to improve the likelihood of a species’ persistence in the wild. The Province ensures the preparation of recovery strategies to meet its commitments to recover species at risk under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) and the Accord for the Protection of Species at Risk in Canada.
Another area where the bobolink migrate is to the grassy fields of Couch Hill Connecticut. Every spring, endangered songbirds, including the spectacular Bobolink, migrate over 6,000 miles from the pampas of Argentina, Bolivia and Brazil. In early May, the male Bobolinks arrive and start their territorial aerial displays, using fluttery wingbeats and warbling songs. Several males will often engage in display flights at the same time.
Because of their small and declining statewide populations and their diminishing nesting habitats, Bobolinks have been listed by the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection as a “Species of Special Concern” under the Connecticut Endangered Species Act.
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The nests and eggs of Bobolinks are also protected in Canada under the MBCA, which was first passed in 1917. Because the Bobolink was listed as a species at risk in 2017, it is also protected by the Canadian Species at Risk Act (SARA).Aug 9, 2022
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